Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…

Thus they will face you down that you are ignorant or impudent, 1. If you question whether Peter was a true Bishop at Rome, (yea or ever there, which Nilus hath showed to be somewhat uncertain) 2. Or that he settled the Roman Bishop as his successor in a supremacy over all the Christian world, 3. Or that the Popes Primacy was over all the Churches on earth, which indeed was but (as Canterbury is in England,) in one Roman Empire only. 4. They will persuade you that this Primacy was settled by Christ or his Apostles, which was done only by Councils and Emperors of Rome, 5. They would make you believe that this was from the Apostles days, which began long after, 6. They would persuade you that all the Christian world submitted to it, even Abyssinia, and all the extra-imperial Churches, which is no such matter, 7. Yea, that before Luther none contradicted the Papal power and claim, but all the Christian world were Papists. By many such lies they deceive thousands of the ignorant: And when they challenge men to dispute, by word or writing, their last refuge is to bring them ⟨image 4⟩into a wood of History, that there they may either win the game or end the chase: And if a Minister of Christ be not armed here, to confute their historical forgeries, they will take it for a victory and triumph, which made me write my last book against Johnson (or Terret) to show Historically the Antiquity of our Church, and the novelty of theirs (which I could wish young Ministers unacquainted with Church-History would peruse.)

Thus they will face you down that you are ignorant or impudent, 1. If you question whether Peter was a true Bishop at Rome, (yea or ever there, which Nilus hath shewed to be somewhat uncertain) 2. Or that he setled the Roman Bishop as his successour in a supremacy over all the Christian world, 3. Or that the Popes Primacie was over all the Churches on earth, which indeed was but (as Canterburie is in England,) in one Roman Empire only. 4. They will perswade you that this Primacie was setled by Christ or his Apostles, which was done only by Councils and Emperours of Rome, 5. They would make you believe that this was from the Apostles daies, which began long after, 6. They would perswade you that all the Christian world submitted to it, even Abassia, and all the extra-imperial Churches, which is no such matter, 7. Yea, that before Luther none contradicted the Papal power and claime, but all the Christian world were Papists. By many such lies they deceive thousands of the ignorant: And when they challenge men to dispute, by word or writing, their last refuge is to bring them